Two Hainan Chicken Specialists In The Same Shopping Center (Almost)

If you drive on the 19200 block of Colima Road in Rowland Heights you will see what looks like a gigantic strip center on the north side of the street. Indeed, there's a single sidewalk that fronts all of the various stores. It's only when you drive from one end to the other that there's a curb stopping you and you have to drive onto Colima to get the the rest of the stores. The fact that these are two separate properties is the only reason I could think of why two Hainan Chicken restaurants would be in such proximity. In one corner is Hainan Chicken, a small restaurant with a relatively sparse menu highlighted by various offshoots of Hainan chicken, plus a few other dishes. In the other corner is Yes Man Chan, a larger restaurant with a much larger menu of Chinese items, but which highlights the Hainan chicken choices at the start of the menu, as well as other points in the menu. For those wanting to have a Hainan chicken taste off, this is your chance. Hainan Chicken is at 19255 Colima Road, Yes Man Chan is at 19209 Colima Road, #F.

or make one trip to singapore.. and ruin hainan chicken in socal for yourself.

Forever!

jk.. (or not?)

will try soon

Edit:

Holy crap i just did some quick googling, and realized that Yes Man Chan was a former "the noodle island" that used to have three locations in the past. Some of the food is quite similar as well! I'm really hoping that the owner and chef are the same, I miss those shops. (and also miss red ant cafe and luk something something)

The old locations were (just for my own memory i guess):

San Gabriel - On Las Tunas where Emperor Noodles is currently. Also housed Lao Bian Dumpling.

Monterey Park - On Garvey Behind the BofA where Farm Cuisine is currently. Also housed Ace Kitchen and Cue-T's.

Arcadia - Where Lu's Garden is currently on Baldwin. Housed a few restaurants but I cannot recall all the names.

Those three restaurants had some pretty solid (but limited) cantonese food, but they seemed to have location and/or service issues. I hope yes man chan will hold up well, I'll definitely visit soon.

Definitely get to Yet Con if you get back. The chef is noticeably aging with every visit back (aren't we all?). Not sure if they'll close or if it will be the same when he retires. It's old school, for sure. Like Tian Tian too, but it's more of a riff on the traditional.